Ginn looked up from her game and saw most of her classmates leaving. "Wow, am I the only one left?" said said outloud. "Guess I'll help clean stuff up Professor."

Iphigeneia smiled. It really had been a wonderful start to the year, she thought, putting the game back on its shelf.

As she walked past Professor McAiken, to much surprise, her dice began peeping and squealing. With a weak laugh and one hand in her pocket to silence the squirming dice, she gave a quick "Thanks for the lesson, Professor," and rushed out of the classroom.

Ginn walks around the room, picking up a cage here and there and putting them back on the desk and putting games back on the shelves. "Just wanted to say Thank You for a fun class Professor. I've never been able to change anything before. Now I think it will be easier since I could do it here."

Ginn once again says "Finite Incantatem" and changes her dice back into a single mouse, puts the cage on the desk and waves good-bye to Professor McAiken as she leaves the class.

Noel looked around the room and didn't really see anyone she new. She gathered her books and picked her bag, "Thanks professor," she said quickly as she left the classroom.

Christy grabbed her bag and books and left the classroom. 'I loved the class. Thank you Professor' Christy said while she left the classroom. She remembered check the board outside Professor's office for her homework assignment.

Kate looked around and noticed everyone was leaving and she had wanted to try one of the games a little bit. She thought it would be interesting to see a bewitched version of the games. She sat at a table to see if any of the students were going to stay to play a game.

Having transfigured the mouse with little difficulty (though he admitted to himself that they did feel slightly fuzzy), Jaren looked up to listen to the instructions of the Professor. Deciding that he had a few other matters to attend to that were more important than testing out fuzzy dice and playing Muggle board games (though he was partial to Monopoly), he Untransfigured his dice, replaced the mouse, and left the classroom after nodding to the Professor.

Kate finding that no one else wanted to play, decided to put her things away and thanked the Professor for a fun and great lesson. She walked with her friend Henry out of the classroom and back to their common room.

Alex just sat there, in her seat and blinked repeatedly at the Professor's instructions. They were going to play Muggle games for the rest of the class? What in the world was that all about? She wanted to learn more stuff in class, not to play. There was not time to play. There were more important things going on.

She watched intently as the students got around the tables and started playing games. They were not four year olds, for goodness sake's. She quickly packed up all her things, including the pieces of parchment she had doodled on. She stuffed her quill on one of the many pockets of her bag, and threw it around her shoulder.

Giving a small nod to the Professor, she exited the classroom.

Cherry was rather taken aback at the idea of actually playing in class. I mean playing? Many students had rushed forward to play, but having lived in a Muggle environment for all her life she felt that it would be best if she could catch up with some aspects of the wizarding world which she still didn't know, like all the stuff they were talking about in Care of Magical Creatures.

So she got up, put the dice in the cage, locked it safely, undid the spell so the dice became one whole furry mouse again, and returned the cage to Professor McAiken.

"Thanks for the lesson Professor, but I think I'll pass on the games. I can't wait for the next lesson though," she said, as she made her way out of the classroom.

Sarah finally stoped Transorming her mouse because she had got it on her third attempet and her mouse was starting to stay square.

"As you play, watch the games. How are the transfigured, do the pieces move themselves like Wizard's Chess? Think about what spells were used. While I want you to have fun doing this, I am also teaching you. Cooperation is something you must have when you go out in the adult world, whether it be a muggle or wizard world. You have to learn how to do a job. Games are more than fun. They teach you things," explained McAiken.

Sarah heard what the Professor had said. She looked down at the game her table was playing it was called Life. What she saw was when you throw the dice or spin the spiner the pices moved by them selves. She also saw that the borad kept changing color for who's turn it was blue for Ravenclaw, green for Slythirn, yellow for Hufflepuff, and red for Gryiffindor.

Ozzy didn't much like to be around to many people at one time so instead of joining the others in playing games he kept himself occupied with taking notes and observing the class's game boards, occasionaly takeing a note or two about how the peices moved on their own. After a while he gathered up his things and moved toward the door. "Professor McAiken, Thank you for the lesson I really enjoyed myself.... er I was wondering if I might have a word with you sometime?" He asked and gave the Professor a slight smile.

Nadia looked at her last resulting pair of dices and smiled. It looked like she had achieved something. Upon hearing instructions on playing with them, her face fell, however. Shouldn't have made them so perfect, she thought, with quite some ego and considering the chances of a uneven dice would help better if she sought to win.

But playing games wasn't she was feeling on the mood for. People were already leaving, though Nadia would go as well or maybe just hang around until homework. And then it happened that the professor spoke again, and this time Nadia watched the dices with some interest. Though not joining for a game (people were already in groups anyways), Nadia tried experimenting, throwing the dices and keeping some notes about it, very Einstein-like.

First thing noticed was that there was tendency for the dices to land on the 6 dots face. Maybe the conscious part of the mice liked it with many wholes that made the dice look like cheese. Or maybe it was only Nadia's lucky day? Then she noticed the dices quite tended to land next to each other, and maybe were extra bumpy. While Nadia wrote down some observations, she added a side note with the thought that trained mice would make tricked dices...

Jen was about to put away her materials and leave when the professor spoke. She picked up her dice and looked at them closely. They appeared to be just an ordinary pair of dice, although she wasn't really sure what an odd pair would look like. She lightly tossed them and watched them land. To her surprise they landed quite close together. Intrigued, she scooped them up and tossed them again. She watched as they landed in the exact same positions as they had before. She looked up to see that those who hadn't already left were already in groups, seemingly unaware of what properties their new dice posessed. She did however, notice an older Slytherin girl by herself who seemed to be observing her newly made dice also.

Walking over to the girl's desk she asked, "Are you noticing anything odd about your dice?"

"Yes, Ozzy, just stop by the office sometime tomorrow. Sorry but I'll be in staff meeting the rest of the day after class," replied McAiken. McAiken watch as a player landed on the Go To Jail space of Monopoly. A ghost like dementor floated up from the board grabbed the player's piece and dragged it to the space named Azkaban. McAiken watch the surprise on the students face as it happen. Perhaps they would see the amazing transfiguration spells used on the games.

He moved around the room watch the tables of students. Class only had a bit more times so McAiken moved to his desk to prepare the homework assignment.

"Thank you Professor". Ozzy said and left for the Great hall.

Laurasia had never played a muggle board game before, so she was a bit taken aback when Professor McAiken spoke about comparing the enchanted versions to the ordinary versions. Since she wasn't aware of what the ordinary versions were like, she decided to watch some students playing a game called Monopoly.

It seemed easy enough, roll the dice (which had a tendency to bounce around a bit more than normal die in this enchanted game) & your piece moved the designated number of squares around the board. She began to toss her own new pair of die on the desktop & noticed that they did have a tendancy to land with the higher numbers up. In fact, she was unable to throw anything lower than a four! Intrigued, she picked up her die & looked them over very carefully for any visible oddities. Suddenly a dementor appeared around the Monopoly game & she let out a gasp. The dementor simply grabbed one of the pieces & moved it across the board & then left. Laurasia gave a very visible sigh & relaxed.

William rushed into the class, carefully closing the door behind him and quickly finding himself a seat, hoping that the teacher handn't noticed him enter. He scanned his eyes around the room, trying to catch a gist of the lesson.

"I'll post your homework on the board outside my office. Thank you for working so hard today. I'll see you next time." McAiken announced to the class. He waited and watched as the student put away the games. They grabbed their book bags and left headed towards their next class. McAiken scanned the room and see everything in good order he left locking the door behind him.

Homework Assignment L1: Mice to Dice

Below you will find 6 questions. The assignment is worth 20 points. The assignment is due September 17, 2005, at 11:59 pm GMT. Read the instructions in the Transfiguration Classroom on how to submit your homework. Answers must be in the form of complete sentences.

1. Define Transfiguration? (1 pt)

2. Name to 2 main branches of Transfiguration magic? (2 pts)

3. What is the correct wand movement for the spell we worked on in Lesson 1? (2 pts)

4. What is the incantation for the spell? (2 pts)

5. Give a brief summary of your temps of performing the spell? (10 sentences) (10 points)

6. What Transfiguration spell would most like to learn this term? (3 pts)

Again read the instruction on the Homework Board before you hand in your assignment. I will be able to tell if you did not.